News

EC to debate energy taxation revision in June
ENDS Europe (subscription)
A draft assessment outlined in the background document shows a carbon tax on energy consumption could lead to a cut of up to 4% in emissions from sectors ...

What to do in the absence of cap-and-trade?
Washington Post (blog)
I think the subsidies should be phased out slowly if we get a slowly increasing effective carbon tax. Overall, I don't think the country is going to accept ...

Full Pundit: There's no back door to the Prime Minister's Office
National Post (registration) (blog)

Strategic thinking for Alberta's energy sector needed from rest of Canada
Calgary Herald

And still people resist a carbon tax
Ottawa Citizen
... on Iran -- and Russia, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia -- tend to be conservatives who are totally opposed to a carbon tax or even a narrower tax on oil. ...

EU shouldn't levy tax on Chinese airlines: official
People's Daily Online
China's civil aviation industry urged the European Union not to hit developing nations with the carbon tax that it wants to impose on flights in and out of ...

The ramblings of a mad political junkie ...
Canada.com
I could sit here all evening going on about Glen Clark's fast ferries, his arrest etc. and Gordon Campbell's sale of BC Rail, the carbon tax, the carving up ...

Property tax
Irish Times
Other reforms involved the introduction of a carbon tax and domestic water charges. A carbon tax has been imposed by Mr Lenihan. ...